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Poster: | wisconsindead | Date: | Feb 6, 2015 4:59pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Keith switch from acoustic baby grand |
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Feb 7, 2015 8:17am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Keith switch from acoustic baby grand |
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Feb 7, 2015 7:48pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Keith switch from acoustic baby grand |
"Rather than capturing the piano sound with conventional microphones in the live setting, they used special pickups designed by Carl Countryman... Bear notes, 'It was charged with a very high voltage, and thus was very cantankerous to set up and use. It had a way of crackling in humid conditions and making other rather unmusical sounds if not set up just right, but when it worked it was truly brilliant.'
Countryman's pickup control box also allowed Keith to attach a wah-wah pedal, which he used sparingly (and always tastefully) during space segments from time to time."
Possibly Keith had other electronics attached to the piano as well; the altered sound is most notable in the late '72 jams.
Also see: https://archive.org/post/436573/wah-pedal-on-keiths-acoustic-piano
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Feb 8, 2015 9:00am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Keith switch from acoustic baby grand |